October 6th, 2009:So hey what are you doing October 16th-18th 2009? If you're like me you're coming to the (free!) ACM Reflections | Projections conference in Urbana, IL! I'm giving a talk! In fact, I've got the last talk of the day, entitled "GUYS, LOOKS LIKE IT'S WACKY TIME", in all caps, just like that. Will it truly be wacky time? Yes, absolutely. You should come!

So, SPEAKING OF PRECIOUS AND DELICIOUS BRAINS, a few weeks ago Matt Youngmark emailed me saying, "Hey Ryan, I wrote a book and I like your comic, can I send you a copy?" and I was all "Well honestly I'm not sure when I'd get time to read it, etc, etc" because it's true and I didn't want to promise anything I couldn't deliver. But he insisted and it turns out his book is a zombie choose-your-own-adventure style book called Zombocalypse Now where you are a stuffed bunny fighting zombies. And there's even endings where you don't die, AND I managed to find one on my very first try AND again on my third try. Clearly I am well-equipped to survive in this particular scenario! So I flip to the end of the book and there's this blurb talking about how Matt read a comic where this T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics wrote his own choose-your-own-adventure story and how he wanted to thank me for inspiring him to do the very same with his first book and I felt like the biggest jerk! Here I am, Mr. "I'm Too Busy To Read Books, Yo" when it's actually the first book ever that thanks me by name on the last page. So thank you Matt for sending me the book, and also for signing it on the first page too, which, I also flipped past in excitement to get down to the zombie fighting. I am flattered!

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My new book Romeo and/or Juliet is out now!! It's my choose-your-own-path version of the Shakespeare play featuring tons of great illustrations. Check it out!!